Year founded:
2019
Number of employees:
450+
Email:
yeesheshvi@toddleapp.com
Website:
toddleapp.com
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/toddle
Yeeshesvi Bhadana
Director, ANZ and APAC
Nick Morgan
Regional Director, ANZ
Joshua Ravek
Senior Manager, School Partnerships
Leadership
Yeeshesvi Bhadana is director, ANZ and APAC at Toddle and leads regional growth and strategic partnerships. A former McKinsey consultant, she brings experience across digital transformation, analytics, sales and marketing. At Toddle, she works with school leaders and local teams to understand system needs, build long-term partnerships and support sustainable adoption.
Director, ANZ and APAC
Yeeshesvi Bhadana
Nick Morgan leads Toddle ANZ and is based in Melbourne. He joined the Toddle team in 2020 after teaching in China, outback Australia and Melbourne. He is an experienced facilitator of inquiry-based and experiential learning, both in classrooms and on camps and tours. He is passionate about promoting student wellbeing and witnessing the personal growth students experience when they step outside their comfort zones. Morgan now helps teaching teams across the ANZ region make their teaching and learning dreams a reality with Toddle.
Regional Director, ANZ
Nick Morgan
Inspired by a former teacher, Joshua Ravek pursued a career in education and later had the opportunity to work alongside that same teacher, who had become his former school’s principal. This experience strengthened his passion for teaching and sparked his interest in educational technology and its potential to enhance student outcomes and simplify teachers’ lives. After leaving the classroom, Ravek spent the last decade helping schools implement innovative learning platforms and leading edtech commercial teams. He joined Toddle after discovering the platform soon after its arrival in Australia. Today, Ravek serves as senior manager, school partnerships, working closely with schools across New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.
Senior Manager, School Partnerships
Joshua Ravek
Melissa O’Shea
Senior Manager, School Partnerships
Melissa O’Shea is senior manager, school partnerships for Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia at Toddle. She has over 20 years of experience in education, teaching from Prep to Year 6, including seven years as a head of teaching and learning and PYP coordinator. She provides quality professional development for educators and has extensive knowledge of the Australian Curriculum, inquiry-based pedagogy and universal design for learning. O’Shea is an experienced coach and mentor with a focus on care and curiosity. She is currently studying a master’s degree in neuroscience and education.
Senior Manager, School Partnerships
Melissa O’Shea
Nick Swan
Senior Manager, School Partnerships
Nick Swan is senior manager, school partnerships for Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania at Toddle. Joining the team in January 2025, he brings a decade of experience in edtech and school systems. Before Toddle, he spent almost 10 years with Compass, leading complex LMS and SIS implementations across diverse school environments. Earlier in his career, he managed ICT in a Victorian Catholic primary school, giving him first-hand insight into educators’ daily realities. Swan’s strengths lie in designing practical, future-proof solutions, navigating complex school requirements and delivering engaging, high-impact training. He partners closely with school leaders to ensure Toddle is not just implemented but also embedded in teaching and learning.
Senior Manager, School Partnerships
Nick Swan
Kirsten Hood
Director, Learning and Engagement
Sarah Glenister
School Experience Specialist
Danny MacKenzie
School Experience Specialist
Eight years ago, Kirsten Hood swapped the lab for the classroom, starting as a science communicator with Questacon before moving into edtech marketing and project management. She’s passionate about meaningfully advancing education with purpose-built edtech tools designed by teachers, for teachers. This year, Hood is bringing school leaders and educators a lineup of relevant, high-impact professional learning experiences, including school leaders meetups, virtual webinars, roadshows, podcasts, case studies and more. When she’s not crafting events and marketing opportunities for Toddle, you’ll find her out on an adventure hiking, running or bouldering, or unwinding with pottery.
Director, Learning and Engagement
Kirsten Hood
Sarah Glenister joined Toddle at the beginning of this year as school experience specialist, bringing more than a decade of classroom expertise and a deep understanding of teachers’ needs. Before joining Toddle, she spent 10 years teaching at a Catholic boys’ school in Melbourne, where she held curriculum leadership roles across multiple departments, including student wellbeing. In 2023, she completed her Master of Education (Student Wellbeing) from ACU, further strengthening her commitment to environments where students and educators thrive. Her passion for education and teacher wellbeing aligns with Toddle’s mission to help teachers do their best work by simplifying workflows and amplifying their impact in the classroom. Glenister also values strong learning partnerships between students, educators and families.
School Experience Specialist
Sarah Glenister
Danny MacKenzie has spent over 25 years in education as a classroom teacher, STEM specialist and senior leader, giving him a grounded understanding of how technology can be used effectively in classrooms. As a P–12 eLearning leader, he guided technology integration, led staff training and professional development, and streamlined edtech workflows. More recently, he developed critical policies to navigate the opportunities and challenges of AI in education. MacKenzie is passionate about collaborating with teaching teams to equip educators with the confidence and skills to use future-focused technologies to support teaching and learning.
School Experience Specialist
Danny MacKenzie
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Toddle set out to replace the patchwork of four to five platforms that most schools juggle to run teaching and learning. Schools that use Toddle typically consolidate three to five of those systems into one, some as many as seven, and most replace at least three. Built by former teachers, the platform is designed to give every educator at least 10 hours a week back for their students.
Toddle was founded by five former educators – Deepanshu Arora, Misbah Jafary, Gautam Arora, Parita Parekh and Nikhil Poonawala, who built it out of a school. Their classroom experience shapes the support model, so every school is paired with a dedicated Toddle Buddy, a former teacher, alongside 24/7 chat answering in under three minutes.
Support reaches schools in the channels they already use, from Microsoft Teams to WhatsApp. Schools also join a peer community through school leaders’ meetups, innovation forums and virtual professional development sessions.
AI is embedded across Toddle’s planning, grading, reporting and analytics and included in every subscription. A grading assistant is built to halve marking time, and AI-drafted report comments save teachers weeks each reporting season. Teachers can also build topic-specific AI tutors that guide students through personalised learning in a controlled environment.
Rather than shipping standalone AI tools every quarter, Toddle is investing in context. Planned student learning graphs will connect assessment, portfolios, attendance, interests and behaviour into an evolving picture of each learner, while teacher-level memory will learn how an individual teacher plans, assesses and gives feedback.
Pulling assessment, attendance and wellbeing data into one place also helps schools spot support needs earlier. It is a slower, harder build, Toddle admits, but one designed to make AI tutors, reporting and curriculum planning more useful over time.
Around 80% of Toddle’s engineering goes into improving the workflows schools already use, with the remaining 20% reserved for bigger bets. Ideas are tested with educators before they ship, and once a year the co-founders invite a shortlist of schools to review the roadmap directly.
Every one of the 40 or more capabilities shown at the April 2026 Demo Day was shaped by feedback from schools using the platform daily. With more than 250 engineers, Toddle says it has the largest development team in K–12 education technology.
Toddle works with more than 2,500 schools across 110 countries. In Australia, it now partners with more than 100 schools and is one of the fastest-growing learning management systems in the market. Catholic Education Northern Territory adopted it across 18 schools in under a year.
Toddle’s next phase turns to AI that understands each learner, teacher and school. Its test stays the same: whether a tool gives teachers back the time for the thinking, noticing and relationships that drew them to teaching.
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